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Iowa State student wins NCGA poster contest

Lei Fang of Iowa State University received top honors at the National Corn Growers
Association’s Corn Utilization and Technology Conference poster contest.

Fang’s
poster focused on increased oil recovery during ethanol fermentation and downstream
processing. The contest, known as the Gary Lamie Student Poster Competition, was
sponsored by the Indiana Corn Marketing Council.

“This is a premier scientific conference on corn wet and dry
milling and new uses for corn, so it is appropriate that we also have a high
caliber poster competition like this,” NCGA Research and Business
Development Action Team Chairman Larry Hoffmann said during the awards presentation.
“The National Corn Growers Association is pleased to lend our support,
encouragement and a cash stipend to young researchers who are shaping the
future of this important industry.”

David Orrego and Dahewan Kim of Purdue University received
second place for their poster focused on corn separation methods to improve starch
recovery, reduce enzyme use and save energy during ethanol production. Z.E.
Carlson of the University of Nebraska took home third place.

The yearly contest had 29 student entries for 2016 that were judged by corn industry leaders and academic experts. The entries this
year went above and beyond the average research for the poster contest in past
years.

A separate contest focused on mycotoxins in corn was held during the conference and the first- through third-place winners of that contest were
Joseph Noonan of Mississippi State, Tabyta Sabchuck of Nebraska and Felicia Parish of Mississippi.